Dave Portnoy has weighed in on one of the most talked-about moments of the women’s NCAA Tournament, delivering a typically blunt verdict on Syracuse head coach Felisha Legette-Jack’s extraordinary postgame press conference following her team’s 98-45 second-round destruction at the hands of UConn on Monday night.
“This is an all time wild rant,” Portnoy, who had a theory of Aaron Judge after he froze up in the World Baseball Classic, posted on social media with three laughing emojis, describing Legette-Jack’s pointed attack on the NCAA selection committee for repeatedly placing her teams in UConn’s bracket.
Legette-Jack’s opening statement was unlike almost anything heard in a college basketball postgame setting. After watching her Syracuse side trail 65-12 at halftime and ultimately fall by 53 points, the worst tournament loss in school history, the Orange head coach did not dwell on the performance itself. Instead, she trained her sights firmly on the people who put the bracket together.
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“For us to do what we’ve done, to continuously have to come to UConn, and every single school that I go to, from Buffalo to here, it’s unfair to the young people,” she said. “After being in this business for 37 years, and to have to come and be in this particular bracket every freaking year is unacceptable. It’s wrong.”…